Help me with a provocative question. I’ve pondered; I’ve thought; I give up. The question: Why don’t the Chinese communists seize the present golden opportunity and land 5,000 or 10,000 members of the People’s Liberation Army in San Francisco or,…
The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in Monday with another example of its divided wisdom on abortion, refusing by a single vote to uphold a Louisiana law seen as making access to abortion unconstitutionally difficult. Unconstitutionally difficult? What about less likely…
“Systemic racism”? I wouldn’t call that America’s present problem. “Systemic ignorance” comes a lot closer to it — a wonderful, and telling, phrase coined by an attorney friend of mine. If you don’t know much of anything, what right have…
The apparently unstoppable nuttiness of the present moment has more faces and features than a Summit supercomputer could keep up with. Here, possibly, is the most incredible of those features: the call to “defund” the cops. Whatever “defund” may mean….
I know, I know; don’t remind me. People of the political right go on and on these days about speech censorship by people of the political left. I grieve to say the case they present grows more and more immediate,…
An overlooked irony of these terrible, horrible, awful, no good, very bad times (as the great children’s author Judith Viorst could have described them) is the 5-4 Supreme Court decision last week upholding California’s restrictions on church attendance: the whole…
“We, the people” is the phrase that comes trippingly to mind. We, the people, over Memorial Day weekend, initiated an urgent referendum on the means and methods of battling the novel coronavirus. Early returns pour in even as we speak….
So. A Texas day care center can open now. I said “right now.” Come Friday, May 22, Texas bars and bowling alleys, by gubernatorial writ, are allowed to pry their doors partly — and, yes, cautiously — open. On the…
Rules, rules, rules — and don’t we hate ’em? They restrict some of our most personal notions, retard our experiential growth, run contrary to modern suppositions as to our human rights. Modern culture reflects and magnifies the I’ll-do-what-I-want spirit that…